Former Vice President Joe Biden is once again apologizing for the treatment Anita Hill received while testifying against Clarence Thomas: “To this day I regret I couldn’t come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved.”
“To this day, I regret I couldn’t come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved,” Biden said, while speaking to attendees at the Biden Courage Awards, which honored student heroes who’ve intervened to preventHill accused Thomas of unwanted sexual misconduct when she worked for him in the 1980s. She made several allegations against Thomas including being pressured to go out with him socially, inappropriate remarks at work and discussing “pornographic materials.
University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 11, 1991. “It should not be one of the most difficult places for women to lay out a story of abuse and harassment,” Biden said.
He said when Hill testified, “she faced a committee that didn’t fully understand what the hell it was all about.”After leaving the White House and amid the “Me Too” movement, Biden first expressed some regrets about the Hill hearings during a 2017"I wish I had been able to do more for Anita Hill. I owe her an apology," Biden said in the interview.
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